I just noticed this tonight on my Windows 7 Enterprise system. Word was catching grammar mistakes but missing some obvious misspelled words. Just for the heck of it, I set the proofing options to only use the main dictionary. Viola, spellcheck
started working normally. So I cleared the option for only using the main dictionary to see if that setting mattered, and spellcheck continued to work. Not sure what happened behind the scenes, but maybe this does a form of reboot on the spellcheck
function =)

My problem seems to be unique. Half of my document spell checks and the other half doesn't. I don't know how to fix it I have tried everything suggested here and I have tried other things suggested else where. If anyone knows anything it would be appreciated
:)

My problem seems to be unique. Half of my document spell checks and the other half doesn't. I don't know how to fix it I have tried everything suggested here and I have tried other things suggested else where. If anyone knows anything it would be appreciated
:)

Rex, I appreciate your response and I followed your suggestion. However, my spell check in Word 2013 is still ignoring all misspelled words. Your suggestion made me think that I might be able to copy a dictionary from another app. So I grabbed a dictionary
from EverNote and I was able to add it after I converted it to Unicode. I made this new dictionary the default and I made sure the Suggest From Main Dictionary Only was not checked. Sounds like a great plan, right? Didn't work. I still have a spell checker
that will lose to my 5 year old granddaughter.

I am upgrading an organization from Office 2003 (with Outlook 2007 installed on top) to Office 2013. Many users are reporting Spell Check issues. For some Spell Check works fine in Word but not in Outlook. In all cases if I blow away their current profile
and have them login as a new user, the problem is completely solved.

So I am guessing that existing profiles have something in the registry, or elsewhere that is leftover from the previous Office installation and this is causing problems.

I am doing a full uninstall of the previous Office before installing the new Office 2013. But obviously this would not touch the registry hive in their profile.

Try the following, this worked for me after moving from 2010 to 2013. A portion of my document was not getting spell checked. That portion (which was what I typed into my document after the upgrade). Anyway after I read much of the
answers what I did was go to languages. I removed all editing languages besides English. I also set English to be the default on both the display language, and help language. I restarted word and it seems to have worked.

I'm not sure which post you would like a response to... this one or the other you posted 4 minutes earlier. Obviously I have chosen this one but in the future please don't double post.

If you have a document open and it contains multiple language each paragraph must be marked with the designated language. Go to the Review tab and choose Set Language. Make sure your default language is set properly and if not correct it and click OK.

Now select paragraphs of text that in the other language, open the Language dialog again and set the language that the selected paragraph of text is. Click OK.

Make sure on the Word Options dialog that neither of the Exceptions boxes are marked. Also note that if your alternate language is still selected in your document that the Grammar settings for that language can now be made.

After you are done, click the Recheck Document button. Hopefully it now shows any spelling/grammar errors in all designated languages. If it does not... save the file, close and quit Word completely and reopen the document.

This exact thing happened to me and I realized I was using a document my teacher created as a template. This seems to be happening in the middle of the document. Very odd. You did not expect MS to release Office without some bugs did you?

I have found in our Academy that this appears to happen when text formatting is applied, if you copy the content of the document to a new document and paste just the text with no formatting Spell check works. This has worked for me not ideal but maybe
get some other ideas bouncing off the wall.

So then I choose 'English' from the "Select a language" drop-down box, and go through the motions of downloading and installing the file "proofingtools_en-us-x64.exe". When installing, I get the message "Almost there - just restart
Word and you're good to go".

So I restart Windows, type some badly spelled words into a blank document - but spell checking still isn't working. When I select

Review > Spelling & Grammar

I still get the message: "Spell check complete. You're good to go!".

So I go back to File > Options > Language and nothing has changed! I'm still seeing the "Not installed" message. I've tried restarting my PC several times in between attempts to install the Proofing Tool software - but still no luck.

I have a similar problem... Word and Powerpoint cannot spell check. I am using Office Standard 2013 on Windows 7 and when I am in word and I type "Todai is Fryday and it shold be an weakend souner thin nows." and press F7 it tells
me "Spelling and grammar check complete. You're good to go!" I think my 4 year old can do better than this. I have tried a number of the suggestions about but none seem to make any difference. What should I try now.
If I cannot get this resolved soon, I am almost to the point of uninstalling 2013 and going back to my 2003 version. At least it works.

I have a similar problem... Word and Powerpoint cannot spell check. I am using Office Standard 2013 on Windows 7 and when I am in word and I type "Todai is Fryday and it shold be an weakend souner thin nows." and press F7
it tells me "Spelling and grammar check complete. You're good to go!" I think my 4 year old can do better than this. I have tried a number of the suggestions about but none seem to make any difference.

I have found in our Academy that this appears to happen when text formatting is applied, if you copy the content of the document to a new document and paste just the text with no formatting Spell check works. This has worked for me not ideal but
maybe get some other ideas bouncing off the wall.

Rex, I recently downloaded Office 2013 Pro and the spell check doesn't work. I purchased a language pack which I then installed using the auto-install process. This still doesn't work
even though the install went Ok. I have tried your solution without luck.

Rex, I recently downloaded Office 2013 Pro and the spell check doesn't work. I purchased a language pack which I then installed using the auto-install process. This still doesn't work
even though the install went Ok. I have tried your solution without luck.

Otherideas?

To the recent posters in this old thread: Please look at the article earlier linked by Stefan Blom:
Mastering the Spelling Checker. The solution to virtually any problem with the spell checker can be found there.

This is my exact problem. EXACTLY! I only have the spell checker for German installed, it appears. I checked what dictionaries I have installed, too, and I have about 4 copies of French, English, Spanish,
and Italian dictionaries because I have tried this solution so many times. This could have something to do with the fact that I when I first bought Word 2013, I set my display language to German, because I wanted to practice my German, and I was doing a lot
of German assignments at that stage. Now, I really need the English Australia, French, Spanish, and Italian proofing capabilities for Word. What do I do?! So frustrated!

This is my exact problem. EXACTLY! I only have the spell checker for German installed, it appears. I checked what dictionaries I have installed, too, and I have about 4 copies of French, English, Spanish,
and Italian dictionaries because I have tried this solution so many times. This could have something to do with the fact that I when I first bought Word 2013, I set my display language to German, because I wanted to practice my German, and I was doing a lot
of German assignments at that stage. Now, I really need the English Australia, French, Spanish, and Italian proofing capabilities for Word. What do I do?! So frustrated!

Sorry for the late response. Proofing and related dictionaries are language-specific. The language settings are character-level formatting that can be applied through styles. You need the appropriate proofing language set for your text. This can be done
by selecting text and setting the proofing language or applying styles that have that language setting.

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